File image An example of the typical desk or table telephone in the 1940s-50s pre-dial era. Users just picked up the receiver and listened for an operator, who asked for the number you were calling ...

This week's column focused on the origins of telephone service in the Spokane region. Surprisingly, Spokane wasn't where the first telephone was installed, but rather in Colfax by Charles Hopkins, who ...

All of the telephone history in the Frank H. Woods Telephone Pioneer Museum — the antique walnut phones, the pastel princesses, the fiddlebacks and candlesticks — has new owners. Nelnet, Speedway ...

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IN Electrical Communication of July 1940, tables are given of the telephone and telegraph statistics of the world compiled by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The tables are compiled for ...

Along many a U.S. highway run parallel telephone and telegraph wires. Last week it appeared probable that future U. S. highways will have but one line of posts and wires. Reason: President Walter ...

IN preparing a new edition of his well-known study of the propagation of telegraph and telephone currents, Prof. Fleming has taken the opportunity of bringing it in line with both the latest ...

Cincinnati Bell’s recent plans to transform itself into a technology and entertainment provider doesn’t mean it is hanging up on phones completely. Voice service will still be a part of the company’s ...

The bigness of the telephone interests, present and prospective, of this country is certainly best understood by the engineers. These men of figures and forecasts, whose every-day speech abounds in ...

IN Electrical Communications of October 1938, statistics of the telephone and telegraph services of the world are given. The telephone development of the world by countries is first discussed, the ...